Item9052: Remove newlines before and after TMPL:END and TMPL comments

to remove the tmpl ASSERT and make it possible to send out valid html

-- SvenDowideit - 24 May 2010

plain and default skins are dying now on ordinary view

I don't understand. There's a newline being added after bodyend, and I can't tell why. I especially don't know why it's not affecting PatternSkin. A hexdump of a sampling of the .tmpl files shows 0x0a at the end of all of them (to be expected).

So far the only work-around I have is to put a \ as the final character in the view.tmpl and view.plain.tmpl, but that doesn't really help.

-- PaulHarvey - 24 May 2010

oh, thankyou, that helps a heck of a lot, until SimplifyMasterTemplateDefinition is done

-- SvenDowideit - 24 May 2010

Just sharing observation, but maybe it was an obvious observation?

-- PaulHarvey - 24 May 2010

maybe it was obvious, but I didn't think of it! and now that you've mentioned it, I'm going to use it, cos as I say, it helps.

sadly, it looks to me like much of the problem is that TMPL:INCLUDEing foswiki at the top of a tmpl file means that subsequent empty lines go on the end, what a mess.

interestingly, removing some newlines makes the problem worse (groan)

much later....

I think I've found a much more sane fix - add a TMPL:DEF after the literal fallthrough definition, and things see to get much better.

I have also added a regex to remove newlines after a TMPL comment, and those can lead to the same issue.

-- SvenDowideit - 24 May 2010

the change that should go into the release note is that we now remove newlines and whitespace before and after both TMPL:END and TMPL comments

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Doesn't the regex to remove newlines after a TMPL comment change the spec, and therefore require a documentation update? I'm OK with it, BTW, but think it should be symmetric (remove whitespace after and before %{...}% )

-- CrawfordCurrie - 25 May 2010

cool - I didn't quite have the guts to remove before - but i do prefer it - and thanks for the docs.

-- SvenDowideit - 07 Jun 2010

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